Carrier-block for circular or similar type.



M. STEINIGER & W. PAPKE.

CARRIER BLOCK FOR CIRCULAR 0R SIMILAR TYPE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1, 19:5.

1 9 1 96,4 9, Patented Aug. 29, 1916.

/4 f/gz HHIHHH cpl MAX STEINIGER, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, AND WILLIAM PAIKE, OF CINCINNATI,

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CARRIER-BLOCK FOR CIRCULAR OR SIMILAR TYPE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1916..

Application filed September 7, 1915. Serial No. 49,363.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MAX STEINIGER and WILLIAM PAPKE, citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, and of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Carrier- Blocks for Circular or Similar Type, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to printers rules and more particularly to the means employed in securing circular or similarly curved printing rules in alined-position within the usual chase that contains the setup type or form, and the prime object of the invention is to provide positive holding and securing means or mechanism whereby said correctly alined result is attained without special skill or any undue loss of time on the part of the workman, and, also, without materially adding to the expense of the rulecarrying and accompanying looking or spacing devices used in said chase.

Another material object of the invention is to provide in such securing-means a posi tive and continuous control of the set or alined position of the circular printing-rule and its usual or any suitable furniture and clamping devices Within the chase, said securing-means being capable of ready and accurate adjustment at all times and enabling the independent, ready removal of the circular printing-rule for replacing the setup form therein whenever desired.

The details of structure will be fully here'- inafter described in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a printers chase showing therein the ordinary furniture and locking-up or clamping devices and, also, showing (within the furniture to the left) the manner in which circular printing-rule has heretofore been held in place, and still further showing (within the furniture to the right) the manner in which the circular printing-rule is positively held in place, against any possible shifting from alinement, by means of our improved device herein; Fig. 2, a transverse section taken on the dotted-line a, a, of Fig. 1, showing our 1mproved circular printing-rule carrier or holder device held in place in one end of a printers chase, including the ordinary furniture but omitting the clamping-quoins, and, also, including spacing-leads (not shown, however, in Fig. 1) for the circularrulein our improved carrier, the said chase being shown broken offat the right end of the v1ew; 'F1g.' 3, a sectional plan of the improved c1rcular printin -rule carrier-block or holding device, taken on a line with our frictional presser pins or bolts, and further showlng' the spacer-leads in the annulus between the circular printing-rule and the concentric clrcular orifice of the said carrierblock and, also, showing the relation of said carr1er-block to one of the contiguous sidepie ces of furniture used in the chase; Fig. 1, a side elevation of our improved rule holder or mountlng device, including a circular prlnting-rule held therein; and Fig. 5, a fragmentary vertical section of the circular printlng-rule (on a larger scale than the preceding views) showing a section of the carrier-block that includes one of the securingbolts and its adj Listing-screw.

1 indicates the ordinary rectangular chase in which are placed the ordinary furniture or filling-sticks and the wedging-quoins, 2 indicating the skirting-sticks that contact wlth the inner faces of the chase, and 3 indicat ng the next adjacent sticks in several positions within the chase, other sticks of the furniture being specifically referred to hereinafter. y

4: indicates each of the pairs of quoins or wedges,used as customary in finally locking-up the form within the chase.

5 indicatesthe ordinary circular printingrule used in printing either a plain or an ornamental circle and having set up therein a form of type and spacing or filling leads, as shown at 6 (to the left) in Fig. 1. V Said form of type and leads comprises the reading-matter to be displayed within the circular printing-rule, the latter being intended to give the same the desired prominence, especially in advertising matter. The said circular printing-rule 5, shown to the left in Fig. 1, is surrounded by four sticks of furniture 7 such sticks 7 being held in rectangular relation by means of the middle and rear pairs of quoins 1, as though in a four-sided vise, and this represents the manner in which circular printing-rule, with its contained form of type-matter, has been held in place in the past and in a very unsatisfactory manner, for the reason that it is extremely difficult to square or aline the type-matter within the rectangular frame formed by the furniture-sticks 7, especially when the final locking-up is being effected by means of the pairs of quoins 4, the latter causing the adjacent sticks 7 to shift more or less, and the circular rinting-rule held between them correspondingly shifting or rolling so as to throw the lines of type out of line when they should be in parallel array with the upper and lower edges of the chase so as to result in proper straight lines before the observer when printed. It has not been found convenient or practicable to set the type in the circular printing-rule after the latter has been set and locked-up in the chase, because it is just as diflicult, or perhaps more so, to preserve the proper alinement of the type. within said rule after said locking-up has been effected as before such locking-up thereof. In order, therefore, to positively hold the circular printing-rule together with its composed type-form therein, within the chase, and especially within the surrounding furniture-sticks 3 and 3 We employ a rectangular carrier-block 8, as shown to the right in Fig. 1, such carrierblock being ,of the same type-standard heightor thickness as that of the surrounding furniture-sticks, and the chase and provided with a circular orifice or opening of a diameter to freely'accommodate the circular printing-rule 5. The circular-rule is preferably inserted in place in the circular opening or orifice'of the carrier-block 8 in a free-fitting manner, but we have shown in Figs. 2 and 3 how said circular printing-rule is adapted to be placed within said circular orifice with an intervening narrow space or annulus 9, suitable segmental leads 10 being inserted in said annulus for properly centralizing the circular printing-rule 1n the carrier-block, as best shown in Fig. 3. The use of the segmental leads 10 enables the carrier-block 8 to accommodate circular printing-rule of varying diameters, segmental leads of greater or less thickness, or of greater or less number being used to make such allowance.

In the circular printing-rule, shown to the right in'Fig. 1, we have not displayed any type set-up form, as we have done to the left in said Fig. 1, but it is quite clear, if the rectangular carrier-block 8 is once locked-up in its surrounding furniture in the chase, it cannot possibly shift, together with its circular printing-rule and contained set-up type form, in a circular or torsional manner so as to disturb the alinement of said set-up type form, and especially when said circular-rule and its contents are held in place in a securely locked-up manner in the carrierbloek, when they are placed in the chase, by means of two or more horizontal pins or bolts 12 that are inserted in the holes 13 that are bored obliquely into several of the corners of the carrier-block, as best shown in Fig. 3, but also shown in Fig. 5. Said pins or bolts 12 are securely held in adjusted position, so that their inner ends shall impinge upon or press a ainst the outer face of the circular-rule 5, y means of vertical screws 14 whose outer, cross-slotted ends project slightly above the plane of the carrierblock 8 and whose inner, tapered or pointed ends engage the tapered face 15 of a groove made in each bolt 12 near its outer end. The locking-engagement of said bolts 12 with the circular printing-rule 5 is best shown in Fig. 5, the inner tapered ends of the setscrews 14 being in forcing-conta ct with said grooves in the outer ends of said bolts. The circular printing-rule 5 can be very readily inserted in place in the carrier-block and, also, very easily locked in position therein and removed therefrom, and it can be Very readily turned within said carrier-block so as to bring its set-up type in due alinement for correct or accurate printing. Thus the said circular printing-rule with its type setup contents can be adjusted within the carrler-block after the latter has been securely locked-up in the chase and, if at any time, the furniture and qnoins surrounding the said carrier-block should become loose and need tightening up, the tightening-up action can be readily made, and though it disturbs the alinement of the set-up type in the circular printing-rule, the latter can be readily adjusted in its carrier-block into due alinement by merely loosening the screws 14: and then retightening them when the alinement of the circular printing-rule has been effected. As it requires but little movement upward of the set-screws i l to release the inner ends of the bolts 12 from contact with the outer face of the circular printing-rule 5, it is desired that the lower tapered ends of said set-screws 14 be not withdrawn above the inner diameter of the holes 13 so that the bolts 12 shall not accidentally slip from place within the said holes 13 and become lost or misplaced when the carrier-block is removed from the chase. Of course, while the carrier-block is locked up within the chase said bolts 12 cannot slip from place within the holes 13.

The operation of adjusting a rule is instantly and accurately done by our device and the type remain in a straight right-line, or wherever placed in the chase, for the ultimate printing-job that is thus never out of alinement.

For made-up partly permanent or changeable advertisements, this device is especially useful, as it enables the removal of the used or discarded form from the circular printing-rule and the replacing or. re-setting with a new form in said circular printing-rule without removing the carrier-block from locked-position in the chase, or Without disturbing any of the furniture or other set-up matter in said chase.

We claim 1. A circular printing-rule device comprising a rectangular carrier-block having a circular opening or orifice therein, a circular printing-rule adapted to fit in such opening with its printing-face above the plane of the block, and means for adjustaly and removably locking said circular printing-rule in the said carrier-block.

2. A circular printing-rule device comprising a rectangular carrier-block having a circular opening or orifice, a circular printing-rule adapted to fit in such opening with its printing-face above the plane of the block, horizontal bolts having taper-faced grooves engaging openings in said carrierblock With their inner ends adapted to impinge upon the vertical face of said circular printing-rule, and vertical set-screws mounted in said block and having inner tapered ends that are adapted to engage said taperfaced grooves in said bolts for the lockingengagement thereof with said circular printing-rule.

MAX STEINIGER. WILLIAM PAPKE. Witnesses:

JOHN ELIAS J ONES, BERT B. Brown.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

